Dead illegal immigrants found in Turkey

Lily

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AP
Published: July 30, 2008, 13:34


Istanbul: A Turkish news agency says the bodies of 13 illegal immigrants, mostly Pakistanis, have been found in a field on the outskirts of Istanbul.

Dogan news agency said on Wednesday that police found the corpses a day earlier.

The thirteen suffocated to death in a packed truck, Turkish police said on Wednesday.

Police found the bodies dumped in a field on the outskirts of Istanbul in the Kucukcekmece district.

The truck was transporting 138 illegal immigrants through Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, a local official told the state-run news agency Anatolian.

Television broadcasted images of a hilly rock-strewn area closed off by police near a narrow two-lane road. Media reports said the majority of the dead were Pakistani.

Police are investigating the incident.
 
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